Fake Costco website?
Fake Costco website?
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Jack.77

Original Poster:

464 posts

67 months

Sunday 5th October 2025
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who is operating this website?
I'm sure it's a convincing fake
https://www.zephyrion.us/

paradigital

1,078 posts

175 months

Sunday 5th October 2025
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Convincing? Literally the first text on the site is hilariously bad. Continental U.k? What’s that? The UK is a continent now is it?

KungFuPanda

4,583 posts

193 months

Sunday 5th October 2025
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Well the first clue is in the website address…

Jack.77

Original Poster:

464 posts

67 months

Sunday 5th October 2025
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I would say it's one of those sites where they actually send you something but just substandard junk

blue_haddock

4,851 posts

90 months

Sunday 5th October 2025
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Jack.77 said:
who is operating this website?
I'm sure it's a convincing fake
https://www.zephyrion.us/
How did you even find that website considering it's nothing like costco's URL?


mcpoot

1,297 posts

130 months

Sunday 5th October 2025
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blue_haddock said:
Jack.77 said:
who is operating this website?
I'm sure it's a convincing fake
https://www.zephyrion.us/
How did you even find that website considering it's nothing like costco's URL?
Presumably by googling for an item and clicking on the result.

Ham_and_Jam

3,390 posts

120 months

Sunday 5th October 2025
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It’s pretty bad, not convincing at all.

I’m quite surprised they haven’t tried to get closer to the Costco URL. Something like ShopCostco.com which is available.

CDP

8,019 posts

277 months

Sunday 5th October 2025
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paradigital said:
Convincing? Literally the first text on the site is hilariously bad. Continental U.k? What s that? The UK is a continent now is it?
Yup, plan B is to take large swathes of Europe while they're busy with Russia and not looking. rofl

The new towns can go in Northern France.

mmm-five

12,078 posts

307 months

Sunday 5th October 2025
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This poster is either a bot (sounds foolish enough to be one), or needs to take advantage of one of those 'Silver Surfer' internet competency courses their bank/community college offer.

I've reported the website to their host's / registrar's abuse contact.

Jack.77

Original Poster:

464 posts

67 months

Sunday 5th October 2025
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There is also at least 5 different web address versions of this site .

vaud

58,036 posts

178 months

Sunday 5th October 2025
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Jack.77

Original Poster:

464 posts

67 months

Monday 6th October 2025
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They still have at least 3 active websites.intresting found an article from may saying they do actually send stuff but is low quality junk,
Why is it so hard to just shut them all down ?
https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/scammers-buy-...